Peggy Webber

She was born Margaret Webber in Laredo, Texas, on September 15, 1925. Source: Wikipedia

She made her radio debut at age 12 on WOAI in San Antonio, Texas. Source: Wikipedia

She later had her own Sunday program on KVOA in Tucson, then moved to Los Angeles, enrolled in USC's School of Speech, and by her late teens was working 21 radio shows a week. Source: Simanaitis Says

A 1946 Time magazine article reported that in three years she had voiced some 150 different characters on about 2,500 broadcasts. Source: Wikipedia

She worked with Jack Webb on Pat Novak for Hire and on a 1949 episode of This Is Your F.B.I., and on radio's Dragnet she played Joe Friday's mother, who called him "Joseph". Source: Simanaitis Says

Cast lists show her in Broadway's My Beat episodes from December 1949 to May 1951 and in Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar episodes in 1957. Source: The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

Her other radio series included The Dreft Star Playhouse, The Damon Runyon Theater, Pete Kelly's Blues and The Man Called X, and in 1979 she played many characters on Sears Radio Theater. Source: Wikipedia

She founded California Artists Radio Theatre and in 2014 became the first woman to receive the Norman Corwin Award for Excellence in Audio Theatre. Source: Wikipedia

On film she played Lady Macduff in Orson Welles' Macbeth (1948); she died in Napa, California, on August 15, 2026, aged 100. Source: Wikipedia